Word: planned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hugh and Judith Marshall, a young couple from Houston, acquire the entire interior of the Mappin and Webbs Jewelry Store in England for $70,000. Marshall is in the oil business in Calgary, owns a jewelry store there, and plans to open one in Houston. The Marshalls also buy two general-store interiors they plan to put on their farm outside Houston as a sort of produce stand. Singer Dick Clark buys an entire pub. Two local housewives, seized by pure impulse, acquire a drug store interior...
...NASA engineers studied a plan to send a McDonnell Douglas F-15, America's hottest jet fighter, into a computer-guided supersonic climb to about 80,000 feet and then blast Skylab out of the sky with a non-nuclear rocket. This idea was dropped when the scientists concluded that Skylab would merely be blown into more pieces scattered over a wider area, increasing rather than reducing the danger of damage on earth...
...weeks ago sent its new ambassador, Lawrence Pezzullo, to Managua and a veteran diplomat, William G. Bowdler, to San José with a proposal: Somoza would resign and be replaced by an interim government composed mostly of moderates but including some Sandinistas as well as pro-Somoza conservatives. That plan was rejected by the rebel leaders, partly on the ground that moderate political groups already support the junta and partly because they resented Washington's interference in what they viewed as strictly a Nicaraguan matter...
Some are less optimistic. "I doubt if any of the pieces will fall on me but I plan on staying in when it is about to re-enter," Johg Rho, a Summer School student, said yesterday...
Meanwhile, the DOE has drawn up detailed regulations for its plan, which it estimates will cost approximately $8 million to implement. Building owners will be given 30 days to post certificates of compliance, and can be fined up to $10,000 for violations. Still, many state and local governments are reluctant to cooperate. As one DOE official readily admitted, "the success of the program will largely depend on voluntary compliance...